<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>While I think that (d) is a valid concern, it is also important not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. &nbsp;If we agree that the proposed web site layout is sufficiently better than the current one and is "good enough" aesthetically, then I think we should go ahead and switch to the new layout and *then* start thinking about how we could make it *completely amazing* like the Ruby web site, because if we demand completely amazing for our *first* try then I fear that all that will happen is that nothing will change because the bar will have been set too high.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Greg</div><br><div><div>On Apr 6, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Jason Dagit wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Schilling <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nominolo@googlemail.com">nominolo@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Ok, based on both your and Ivan's comments I modified a bit more.<br>
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<a href="http://i.imgur.com/cumLj.png" target="_blank">http://i.imgur.com/cumLj.png</a><br>
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Making the top columns and the lower columns the same width looks bad,<br>
but I agree that the large margin between the blurb and the<br>
Documentation headline was too large.<br>
After I changed that, however, the Documentation section and the News<br>
sections did not line up anymore which looked even worse when the news<br>
section had a different background colour. &nbsp;So instead the background<br>
colour is used for the quicklinks. &nbsp;Removing any use of a background<br>
colour would makes things too boring, though.<br>
I also swapped the heading colour and the title bar colour. &nbsp;So<br>
headings are now a very dark blue.<br>
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The italic things in the blurb are actually not links (though they<br>
could be). &nbsp;Without any styling the blurb would look too boring, so<br>
I'm using the same blue that the title bar uses.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We were discussing it briefly around the office and some things I recall from that:</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;a) There's only so much you can do with square boxes, flat colors, and a single font.</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;b)&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/">http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/</a>&nbsp;is probably one of the best looking programming language websites.</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;c) the wiki bar at the top has got to go</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;d) how do the designs look on mobile devices?</div>
<div><br></div><div>It looks like you've definitely tackled (c), so that's great. &nbsp;It seems like maybe we can draw on (b) to help address (a).</div><div><br></div><div>I wish I had more concrete suggestions. &nbsp;Keep up the good work!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jason</div></div>
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